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It’s OK to get rid of books. Really.

Morning File, Friday, April 22, 2022

April 22, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 13 Comments

News 1. Renoviction? What renoviction? The ban on renovictions has been lifted with the end of the provincial health state of emergency. There are new rules in place though around kicking out tenants in order to upgrade properties and jack up the rent. But are landlords following them? In many cases, the answer seems to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Alexa Yakubovich, Angela Reynolds, Books, Chúk Odenigbo, Civil Eats, Community Planning and Economic Development, Dalhousie Legal Aid, David Hendsbee, domestic violence, Enqore Developments, homelessness, housing, John Ghosn, Lisa Blackburn, mental health, Myriam Gaudet, Nature, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, pandemic, Philip H. Howard, plant-based meat, PRICED OUT, renoviction, Sakura Saunders, Shannon Jones, tenants rights, Unhoused people, violence against women

Tenants evicted from rundown Bedford Highway hotel; landlord says it’s not a renoviction

April 21, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

A developer is telling dozens of tenants to move out of a Bedford motel at the end of the month and offering no compensation — one of many landlords ignoring provincial rules around so-called renovictions, according to Dalhousie Legal Aid. The province banned the practice, where tenants are evicted to facilitate renovations or demolitions, during […]

Filed Under: Economy, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Bluenose Inn and Suites, Brandy McGuire, COVID-19, Dalhousie Legal Aid, Enqore Developments, Halifax, housing crisis, John Ghosn, Mark Culligan, Nova Scotia, renoviction, state of emergency, Zane Woodford

Demand for housing assistance, legal aid support on the rise since renoviction ban lifted

April 12, 2022 By Leslie Amminson 1 Comment

  Demand for housing assistance and legal aid services has increased since Nova Scotia lifted its ban on renovictions, support workers say. The province had temporarily banned renovictions, the practice of evicting a tenant in order to renovate a rental unit, under the state of emergency that lasted almost two years through the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, PRICED OUT, Province House Tagged With: COVID-19, Dalhousie Legal Aid, Halifax, housing, housing crisis, housing hub, Leslie Amminson, Mark Culligan, Melissa Puddicombe, MLA Claudia Chender, Nova Scotia, PRICED OUT, renoviction, Shelter Nova Scotia

How the Justice Department is attempting to whitewash the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun

Morning File, Friday, October 30, 2020

October 30, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. New council “The new regional council was sworn in at a socially distanced ceremony at the Halifax Convention Centre Thursday night, ushering in a more diverse era of municipal politics in the city,” reports Zane Woodford: There were fewer than 100 people at the event in the big ballroom at the convention centre […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC), Felix Cacchione, Glen Assoun wrongful conviction, IIC Director Ron MacDonald, Independent Investigations Office (IIC), Justice Minister Mark Furey, Ken Bradley, Michael McGray, Minister Chuck Porter, Premier Stephen McNeil, RAPID database, REIT, renoviction, rent subsidies, Robin Hartrick, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS)

Stop shaming people for renting

Morning File, Thursday, July 9, 2020

July 9, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 15 Comments

News 1. Development agreement approved for preschool at Halifax councillor’s house Zane Woodford reports on the approval of a development agreement for councillor Shawn Cleary’s house Wednesday night during a virtual public meeting. Cleary and his wife, Michelle, have been running a preschool, Maple Tree Montessori, from their home at the corner of Quinpool Road […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Budgets are Sexy, co-op housing, Generation Squeeze, Irving, Kent Homes, portable classrooms, real estate, renoviction, rent shaming, rental crisis, rental market, renting, school reopening, We Rent

“I have never dealt with a landlord like this”

Tenant in north end Dartmouth building gets rent increase of 45% after making complaints about safety and maintenance issues.

July 5, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

A Dartmouth woman recently got a rent increase of 45% for what she believes is retaliation for making complaints about safety and maintenance issues in the building where she lives. Kimberly Rankin has lived at 6 Nivens Avenue in north end Dartmouth since January 2019. But this year, she started reporting issues around the building. […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: 6 Nivens Avenue, 77 Farrell Street, affordable housing, Ann Organ, co-op housing, Darcy Gillis, Dartmouth Housing Help, Elias Metlej, Kimberly Rankin, M-200 bylaw, Maggie-Jane Spray, Mario Morrison, MLA Susan Leblanc, non-profit housing, North Dartmouth rental market, Northview Apartment REIT, renoviction, rent control, Residential Tenancies, Tracey Morrison

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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